Search Results: Titles starting with W from BIAbooks

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, Inc., 2002. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. The 15th Chee/Leaphorn mystery finds MWA Grand Master Hillerman back at the top of his form as his two Navajo peace officers look into both a past and present mystery. .Hillerman repeatedly shines in this masterfully complex new novel."--Publishers Weekly

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "Mixing a little fantasy with a coming-of-age saga and a healthy dose of the New England tall tale, Mosher spins a charming baseball yarn that will give Red Sox fans something to cheer about while they wait for next year.Mosher is a master at combining sweet and sour: his baseball story stirs W. P. Kinsella fantasy with Mark Harris realism, while his view of small-town New England leavens the grit of Annie Proulx or Carolyn Chute with just the right amount of Mosher's own down-to-earth sweetness. Must reading for all the citizens of Red Sox Nation". ---Bill Ott, Booklist

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 1991. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Fine/Very Fine. A pristine, collectible book protected in a mylar cover. This book appears UNREAD. It is the fourth novel featuring J.D. Hawkins and Megan Drew. Author has twice been nomonated for the prestigious Shamus Award for Best Crime Novel .

Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. In this sequel to "Always Outnumbered, Always Outgunned", Socrates Fortlow is back in Watts, trying to leave prison in his past, and confronting the most dangerous emotion of all: hope."In prose as plain and gritty asphalt, Mosley (who is also the author of the Easy Rawlins mysteries) adeptly builds a feeling of urgency and suspense around even seemingly ordinary episodes of his protagonist's life."--- The New York Times Book Review

New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. ". the second volume of Doris Lessing's autobiography boasts the same acute, brutally frank insights. She begins with her 1949 arrival in London as a 30-year-old single mother from Rhodesia who is searching for a place and the means to write freely; Lessing closes in 1962 with the publication of her most famous novel, The Golden Notebook. In between, she covers love affairs, years of psychotherapy, and her increasingly disenchanted involvement with the Communist Party. Walking in the Shade is essential reading for anyone interested in mid-century British culture." Amazon.UK

New York: G.P. Putnam and Sons, 1994. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine++/Fine. An attractive book with a a faded droplet of a stain on edge of text block, else fine. "An irresistible new crime novel that will captivate both longtime and soon-to-be-devoted Spenser lovers. In this, Parker's 26th novel the private investigator returns to delight readers with his sexy and literate brand of hardball-goofball that rightfully has gained him his faithful following."--Kirkus Reviews

New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This is an unforgettable FIRST novel by the granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway. It is a novel of family agony and the indomitability of the human spirit. It is written with unwavering honesty and a Faulknerian sense of mood and place. This book has been hailed for its depth of feeling, its brilliant imagery, and its uplifting heart. This book appears UNREAD. Keywords: HEMINGWAY GRANDDAUGTHER FIRST NOVEL SOUTHERN FAMILY DISFUNCTIONAL PSYCHIATRISTS HEALING LOVE

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. A attractive book by this Pulitzer Prize awardee. Pages are bright, clean and fresh. Dj colors are still vivid with an image of 'Rooms by the Sea' by Edward Hopper. Dj has some minor nicks and cuts along edges with a half inch closed tear on front upper right corner. Writing at the height of his powers, John Hersey has created a taut, dazzling novel of suspense and revelation-in which we watch, mesmerized, the fateful convergence of two lives.

Wellesley, MA: Brook Street Press, 2003. First Edition/First Printing . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine, SIGNED, FIRST NOVEL. A provocative novel with a fresh voice, WALTER FALLS was selected as a finalist for the 2003 Book of the Year for Literary Fiction by ForeWord Magazine and also as a finalist in the Independent Publishers Association 2004 Book of the Year for General Fiction.

New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1998. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Pam Houston makes the page disappear. We are in the small town of Hope, Colorado, sitting in the kitchen of the ranch that is forever sliding into the Rio Grande. We sail to Isla de la Plata to see the blue-footed boobies and let the rivers teach us how to live. Houston takes us up and down the coast of America with bad parents and good times, with beautiful men and wild impluses, and all the time she is telling us new stories: funny, sad, compassionate, and true as secrets whispered between friends at night."--Amy Bloom

New York: Dutton, 2001. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This novel is the Author's second book that is a triumphant story of one woman's quest to be more than that from which she came. "Riveting.I am as impressed by its structural strength as by the searing and expertly imagined scenes."--Toni Morrison. A pristine book. Keywords: BROOKLYN NEW YORK ALCOHOLICS TEMINALLY ILL PATIENTS AFRO-AMERICAN FAMILIES FATHERS DAUGHTERS

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1989. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. This book of ten short stories is the Author's fiction DEBUT. " Rick Bass owns a durable and authentic voice. I read The Watch with intense pleasure, wondering at the skill of a young writer who can frighten and amaze. This is a superb debut."--Jim Harrison. A pristine book. Keywords: SHORT STORIES GROWING UP MISSISSIPPI FARMING FAMILY MEXICO SOUTH HIGH SCHOOL FRIENDS

New York: The Viking Press Inc., 1983. First Edition . Hardcover. Near Fine+/Fine. A collection of 10 short stories that is ".deeply amusing, relaxed, sure-footed and very unified collection.[Furman] is brilliant at constructing shot story frames. A superb collection, by a writer who beautifully knows her own mind."--Phillip Lopate. Only flaw is a remainder mark at bottom edge, else fine.

New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf , 1989. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. As New/As New. A pristine book that appears UNREAD. NANCY WILLARD was an award-winning children's author, poet, and essayist who received the Newbery Medal in 1982 for A Visit to William Blake's Inn. Readers who seek celebration of things in the world and affirmation of a spiritual presence in daily life will relish this volume.

New York: Scribner, 1999. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book."In her new novel Helen Elaine Lee blurs the boundaries between prose and poerty, life and art."--Anita Desai. This book resonates with mesmerizing language and deep emotion. Author wrote the highly acclaimed 'The Serpent's Gift'.

New York: Warner Books, 2006. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A pristine book. "This is an unusually absorbing story, with the subversive aspect that Mosley brings to all his fiction. I enjoyed his depiction of a most unusual alien life-form and of how it might manifest on Earth and communicate with humankind. Don't miss The Wave."---Bookloons Review. Keywords: MOSLEY HUMAN ALIEN ENCOUNTERS NATIONAL SECURITY

New York: Pocket Books, 1992. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book with the only flaw being one corner is gently rubbed. Author's second novel that is "Compelling, darkly funny, defiantly romantic: a modern-day tale of manners." --- Kirkus Reviews. It is a book about friendship based on Main Street geography; about having no degree in a snobby college town; about being an ex-cheerleader and ex-boy-crazy girl in a politically correct landscape; about getting what you deserve; and about getting lucky in love after giving up hope.

Boston: Little Brown & Co, 1994. First English Language Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book, fresh, clean and fresh. Author's first novel to be published in the U.S. Winner of the French Femina Prize. Translated from the French by Jeremy Leggatt. "an unforgettable record of human love, a mesmerizing tale of illicit passion and of a pair of doomed lovers tried by fate and destroyed by a web of lies intended to protect them.

New York: Saint Martin's Press, Inc., 2004. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Author's DEBUT book in pristine and collectible condition. It is a compelling, moving, and beautifully written, the interlinked stories that make up We Should Never Meet alternate between Saigon before the city's fall in 1975 and present-day "Little Saigon" in Southern California---exploring the reverberations of the Vietnam War in a completely new light. "In Aimee Phan's collection of stories, . she accomplishes what only a true artist can: She gives voice to the voiceless and makes them speak for us all. This is a thrillingly important book."-- Robert Olen Butler

New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005. First Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A very attractive book. 448 pages including an index, bibliography, chapter notes and text. Illustrated with a two page map frontispiece. "A fascinating book about one of America's greatest public engineering projects.ties together the politics, economics, engineering, finance, and sheer entrepreneurial brilliance of the Canal's creators into a wonderful read."--W. Goetzmann, Yale